Factors influencing the likelihood of dental service checkup: results from a survey in Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The funding and delivery of healthcare including dental care in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA, or Saudi Arabia) is undergoing a process of reform. To inform this process, it is important that policymakers are aware of the relationships between service use, specific types of use, and the factors that influence this. Currently, there is a paucity of research in this area in KSA that examines dental service use for checkups at a national level and none that examines differences in this use across regions or that examines explicitly the role of income.

Aims

This study uses the most recent version of the Saudi Health Interview Survey (SHIS) to examine the relationships between the use of dental services for a checkup and socio-demographic characteristics of responde

SUBMITTER: Almutairi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755011 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature